During the fifteenth session of the World meteorological organization (Wmo) commission for agriculturaljust concluded in Brazil, 21 women experts were appointed. Among them the Italian Federica Rossi, researcher at Cnr-Institute of biometeorology, was elected as vice-president of the commission

The community of statistical physicists meets every three years on a different continent at the series of Statphys conferences to define the state-of-the-art in the field and to outline its possible evolution

The book, edited by Claudio Bertoli, director at Det-Cnr, intends to stimulate a debate within the scientific community and with the institutions about the main results achieved and the research activities for the next few years

Researchers of Cnr-Institute of ecosystem study (Ise), in Verbania, discovered that, as in the oceans, in a deep lake as well the relative abundance of micro-organisms belonging to the domain of archaea increases with depth. This group of prokaryotic micro-organisms has been recently defined as one of the hot topics in aquatic microbial ecology